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It's about time I did one of these to keep some of you off my back for a bit.
As I have said before, the burgers here are the best in the world. That is my most favorite part about America.
But I also like the wide roads.
The cheap gas is nice too (but it would be even better if you would use less of it to stop warming the planet - ahem).
I like the way they pack your bags for you at the grocery store.
I like the cheap, American beer.
I like the way you can buy almost anything on the internet (but again the transport of it to my house from California must be heating the planet - so time to stop).
I like Obama - well done on choosing that one.
I like liberals. Someone has to.
I like the way you can tell someone's political persuasion by what they look like, how they wear their hair (and makeup) and how they dress.
I like that there is not much swearing in the streets.
I like the way that no one knows how to fight so there is no thuggery.
I like the Spring here (but it's too short) and the Fall as well (but again too short).
I like air conditioning.
I like the cheap shoes you can buy here.
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Report: Mark Stoops hired as head coach at Kentucky
Mark Stoops accepted an offer to be head coach at Kentucky, according to a report from CBS Sports. He replaces Joker Phillips who was fired on Nov. 4 after the team had a 1-9 start.
Stoops was the defensive coordinator at FSU and also served as defensive coordinator on his brother Mike Stoops's staff for six years at Arizona. His older brother, Bob Stoops, is Oklahoma's head coach.
ESPN's Brett Murphy tweeted Mark's reaction:
UK coach Mark Stoops: "I will be focused & driven to create a positive, winning atmosphere for the program all of Kentucky can be proud of"—
Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) November 27, 2012
Kentucky has not yet made the news official, but CBS Sports' Bruce Feldman spoke with a source close to the matter:
Source confirms FSU asst. Mark Stoops will be named next football coach at UK, as initially reported by KYSportsRadio.—
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Stoops oversaw vast improvements to FSU's defense when he joined in 2010: The Seminoles were ranked 108th in total defense in 2009 and moved up successfully each year and were ranked second in 2012.


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Outsider candidates pop up like weeds every election, and only occasionally do they attract much, if any, attention. More often than not their message is radical and baseless, they really aren't serious to begin with or they try to self-fund their way into office simply because they have the extra dough lying around. On both sides of the fence the establishment is king, and in my discussions with these earnest but oft misguided outsiders, my professional advice is typically to give it your all, but don't be sad when you lose by 90 points.
Enter Lauren Scott.
A tall and quietly elegant woman, it is easy to assume that perhaps fading into the scenery is where she is most comfortable.
Yeah, that's until she opens her mouth.
I first interviewed Scott on Fox News Radio several months ago, and I approached it like any other political interview. Politicians are highly skilled at answering the questions they want to, not the questions they are asked, so my focus is typically on cutting through the campaign-speak to get them on the record about the issues.
Suffice it to say, I didn't have this problem with Scott. Even the simplest of questions were met with reasoned, researched and rather lengthy answers. I was secretly grateful for the extensive answers since they allowed me time to furiously research deeper follow-up questions. It restores hope to see a politician who greets the issues with lucid, thoughtful and concise answers, not just mealy-mouthed platitudes and deflection.
Wicked savvy when it comes to governmental affairs and the effects of government on the private sector, Scott's extensive knowledge of policy expands far beyond the human rights issues she is famous for in the halls of our legislature. Scott is on the right side of history and science when it comes to the future of green energy here in Nevada, and it is ideas such as hers that will turn Nevada into the green energy state, not just the green felt state.
For too long, compromise has been a four-letter word in American politics. This is why it encourages me to see a politician who can break out of the hyper-partisan mold and actually admit that government needs money to function. In an era of worthless tax "pledges" and countless groups trying to pigeonhole our elected officials into voting "no" on every piece of legislation, Nevada needs moderates like Scott who are willing to stand up, sometimes in the face of their own party, reach across the aisle and make bipartisanship the word of the day.
This sort of outlook is how Nevada must approach our ever-changing tax policy. The solution to Nevada's woes isn't only about lowering taxes; it is about creating a business-friendly environment complete with a cutting-edge workforce to entice thriving industry back into our shuttered storefronts. Scott gets this, and she has firmly adopted a policy of responsible regulation, sound energy policy and smart development to put Nevadans back to work.
She understands that tax revenues will increase as more people go back to work and at the same time, they will be able to rely less on the social safety nets that are dragging government budgets into a chasm of red ink. I think Scott's website says it best: "We don't need to raise taxes, we need to get Nevada working again."
I applaud Lauren Scott for standing up to the old guard and the old ideas currently controlling the Republican Party. She ain't your parents' Republican and if you're looking for the scorched-earth rigid conservatism so passionately favored by some, you're not going to find it here.
Scott is an expert on renewable energy, a friend to businesses large and small alike, she understands the importance of a limited but efficient government and she is an unabashed moderate. For those reasons and many more, she earns my endorsement.
It's time for a new direction here in Sparks. It's time for Lauren Scott.
Vote Lauren Scott for Assembly District 30.
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Sacramento went deep five times in the game, scored three runs in the first inning and never trailed as the River Cats clinched at least a series split with a 12-4 victory in the second game of the four-game set.
Sacramento went up 3-0 on a Chris Carter sacrifice fly and RBI singles by Michael Taylor and Derek Norris. Jermaine Mitchell and Brandon Moss both doubled to put runners in scoring position in the first frame.
Reno tried to keep it close. In the bottom of the second, Randy Ruiz led off with a single on a line drive to right field and later scored on a throwing error by Sacramento pitcher Bruce Billings, closing the gap to 3-1.
Carter's leadoff homer in the top of the third made it a 4-1 ballgame, and prevented Reno's two-run rally in the bottom half of the inning from causing the Cats to lose their lead. David Winfree's two-out single drove in a pair of runs, pulling the Aces to within one. But they never got closer than the 4-3 score.
The River Cats outscored the hosts 8-1 from the fifth to eighth innings to account for the final margin.
Sacramento posted a two spot on the scoreboard thanks to back-to-back solo shots by Carter and Wood.
Reno went to the bullpen to start the sixth, but even that didn't slow down Carter at the plate.
After the River Cats went up 7-3 on Mitchell's RBI fielder's choice, Carter cleared the fence in center field for a two-run home run, his third long ball of the game.
The Aces got one run back in the bottom of the sixth thanks to a run-scoring single by Ryan Wheeler that plated Winfree, who had started the inning with a double. Winfree and Wheeler both went 2-for-4 in the loss.
But it mattered little as Sacramento (13-5) added two more runs on a fielding error in the seventh and one run on Moss's second home run of the game in the eighth.
Mitchell, Carter, Moss and Taylor all finished 3-for-5 at the plate as the River Cats out-hit the Aces 15-11. Carter capped his day with five RBI.
Bruce Billings went five innings, allowing three runs — one earned — on five hits to record the pitching victory. He stuck out five and didn't walk anyone.
Charles Brewer was saddled with the loss after giving up 10 hits to the River Cats. Five of the six runs he allowed were earned.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29, 2006 – Pat McCoy SFNS, Vice President of School Foodservice Sales for Schwan's Foodservice, was named the fourth recipient of the School Nutrition Association's (SNA) Individual Industry Member of the Year Award. McCoy, who has been involved in child nutrition programs for twenty years, was nominated by SNA past presidents Marilyn Hurt SFNS, Penny McConnell SFNS and Gertrude Applebaum for his "personal commitment, energy and selflessness" to his work on behalf of the Association and school nutrition.
Since becoming an SNA member in 1986, McCoy has supported the efforts of school nutrition professionals in a wide variety of ways, both individually and in his positions with Schwan's Foodservice. His leadership efforts have resulted in Schwan's continued support of college scholarships for SNA members and support for the Global Child Nutrition Forum and international school feeding efforts. He has directly been involved in aiding school nutrition labeling efforts, advocacy on behalf of the federal child nutrition programs and responding to the need by school nutrition professionals for reformulated, low-fat entree items.
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Haha, this is a great discussion idea! I agree the lyrics are usually easy to understand, but sometimes... I used to think "The Good Life" went, "I don't want to be lonely anymore..." instead of "I don't want to be an old man anymore" and I used to hear "Troublemaker" as "I will be a rockstar and you will go to bed with me" instead of "you are gonna bear with me"
And yes, I also heard "Memories" as "on the bus while we undigest", "earned our checks" makes WAY more sense :)
I've always found Weezer's vocals to be very understandable for the most part, so I only have one example.
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Listening to techno music on the bus where we earned our checks.
What I thought:
Listening to techno music on the bus while we undigest
Made sense to me seeing as it comes directly after a line containing the word vomit.
"Pink Triangle on her sleeve," sounded at the time like, "Pink Triangle honestly,"
On King "Cut me some slack off," sounded at the time like, "Cut me some slack dawg," which I still think to this day would have been a funnier lyric. Also on the same song "an army of babies" sounds like, "And I'll be your baby," and "Clear out of my biz," sounded like, "Clear out all my fears,"... man I really screwed that song up.
First couple listens to Hurley I was singing "We are trade winds." I liked the idea of being a trade wind.
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This event is an "Us vs. Them" contest where the locals defend their turf from the invading clubs with two days of motos on this fast, technical course. And one of the homeboys showed, even after a layoff, the Sand Box is still his house.
"It's been three months since I raced or rode, so my body's a little out of shape," Scott "Mr. Sandman" Stillmock said after running away with his last Master's moto. "I was tired at the end and could see them catching me so I was just trying to play it safe."
In that final moto, he led the charge right after the first turn and was never headed so Brian Bacal, the only other rider in his class, had to settle for the runner-up spot.
The 38 Experts also raced in that same moto and when the dust settled, local chapter member Tony Fagundes finished third, which was enough to earn the overall spot for the weekend ahead of fellow chapter member Marcus Gentry.
Jeramiah Brown, another local chapter member, took the 30+ Intermediate overall win for the weekend as he swept all of his motos. However, his final moto was a battle.
After the halfway point, Valley chapter member Scooter McCormack caught Brown and the race was on. Lap after lap they were nose-to-tail or side-by-side. Flying past the checkered, Brown's margin of victory was less than a second over McCormack.
For one rider, getting no rest Friday night took its toll but a good night's sleep Saturday gave him a pair of victories on Sunday.
After taking the checkered flag, local rider Chester Martinmaas said," What a great ride, I thought I lost it that time but for the first time in a long time, they got tired before I did. I did two thirds yesterday so I can't win today as I worked all Friday night, didn't have one ounce of sleep but today that little 8 and a half hour sleep made all the difference."
Then runner up but overall victory Robert Stone said, "It was great and I love a challenge but a Reno guy whipped me. I had a good ride, won both Saturday and got two second places behind Chester and it's humbling to get my butt whoopped."
While he started in third, Martinmass soon began to close on the leaders and passed both Stone and Steve Parker. From that point on, he held the point with Stone trying to catch him.
Four motos in two days take a toll on all the riders and the result was that some races actually ran slower on Sunday afternoon. One example was the race combining the 52+ Novice riders and the 60+ racers.
A very tired Valley chapter member Mike Tucker said after winning the final moto, "We're all so tired it's just who is going to last through the last moto," he said. "I can guarantee that last moto is a lot slower than the last three."
Even though it was a long haul local chapter member Bob Hurst ended the weekend on a high note as he swept all his 52+ Novice races.
"The track is brutal right now but the guys have done a great job prepping it and keeping it watered. Hat's off to the Over The Hill Gang, they've done a great job all weekend," he said.
While several women raced in various classes, there were two groups that had their own race. At the end of Sunday's final race a delighted Bay Area rider, Connie Talbot won and insured her weekend's overall victory.
"The track was awesome," she said.
Fortunately it was a pretty safe weekend with only a few incidents but no rider had to be transferred to the hospital. And it was a good weekend for the local chapter as their members won five overall victories making it a good weekend.
•The 95A Speedway was also in action on Saturday night where the cold temperatures were the scene of some hot racing.
Saving he best for last the evening ending IMCA Modified feature became a three-dog fight between Shawn Natenstedt, Jay Sears and Jake Holland. For much of the race a large blanket would have covered all three cars.
Each had their time on the point, but the race was decided after a drag race from Turn 4 to the checkered flag where Natenstedt nipped Sears at the line.
Holland was a close third followed by Robert Miller and Natenstedt's wife Missy driving a B Mod racer that is usually outgunned in horsepower when compared to the other modifieds.
After the race Natenstedt said, "Man that was a great race, I got up front the Jay got the lead. I had to settle in then we had a few cautions and Jake got me on the outside and I got him back. Then coming to the checkered me and Jay Sears were just nose-to-tail, door-to-door, it was awesome racing tonight and my wife finished fifth, her second race in an A Mod."
Then he gave special thanks to sponsors Competition Carburetion, Silverado Casino, Silver Strike Casino and Carson Plains Casino.
For his part Sears said, "In that last corner I missed my mark by a hair and let him get underneath me. And it was a drag race from there, but we still had a good run off the top and almost got him."
Then third place Holland said, "We had that caution with about five to go and I actually got underneath Shawn to the lead and it was a photo finish as we raced back to the yellow. I didn't need that caution, think we would have won the race but that's racing and how it goes."
At 95A cars when a caution comes out the cars race back to the yellow flag. While exciting there is a downside to this and during the IMCA race tragedy was averted but just.
Leo Mayfield spun and was sitting still on the front straight beyond the flagman. Most cars missed him but when a three-wide group came down the front straight Russell Rosario didn't have anywhere to go and hit the helpless Mayfield.
In the end both drivers were uninjured in the race-stopping incident but Rosario's car has most of its driver side bodywork torn away as well as that side's suspension almost torn off the car. It was a testimony to how good the safety equipment was and how dangerous racing back to a yellow can be.
Other races were also hot and heavy as Craig Nieman ran away with the Pro Stock feature while Royce Goetz held off all comers to win the Hobby Stock event. In the Dwarf Cars it was Vikki Wilson Jr., while Al Bishop won the Pure Stock Mini race and Stephen Crook topped the Mini Mod field.
•This weekend will be another action packed one for racing fans.
North of Reno the Honey Lake Motocross Park hosts the next round of the SMRA Spring series on Saturday while, on Sunday, Exit 28 hosts the next round of its Dealer's Challenge series.
For oval track fans American Valley Speedway in Quincy has another of its points races featuring IMCA Modifieds and the DART series Dwarf Cars. Closer to home Rattlesnake Raceway in Fallon hosts another of its points races.
On Sunday the Northern Nevada Kart Club stages another race at Desert Park Raceway located a quarter mile on the dirt extension of Lemmon Drive.
•Three of NASCAR's Nevada Quartet spent the weekend at Charlotte. In Saturday's Nationwide event Kyle Busch started 12th and finished third while T.J. Bell came from 39th to end up 30th.
On Sunday the Coke Cola 600 was run, the longest stock car race on the calendar, and once again Kyle ended up third while older brother Kurt, who started 42nd came home 27th and T.J. Bell in one of his rare Sprint Cup appearances started 39th and finished 30th.
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Over The Hill Gang Nationals (Overall)
A - 1. Connie Talbot, 2. Linda Thomas, 3. Brenna Singh, 4. Dee Jay
B - 1. Kristy Martin, 2. Paige Winfree, 3. Brenda Petuya, 4. Coleen Dwyer, 5. Charlene Spoor
Beg - 1. Cameron Clark, 2. Missi Dutton, 3. Greg Tribulato
Nov - 1. Julio Leon, 2. Ward Alexandro, 3. Craig Owen, 4. Andrew Jones, 5. Norman Poppy
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Exp - 1. Jason Shakespeare*
Master - 1. Scott Stillmock*, 2. Brian Bacal
Beg - 1. Mikel Cimmino, 2. Chris Gaarenstroom*, 3. Chrstian Tyler*, 5. James Van Dulnwyk
Nov - 1. Brian Allman, 2. Eugene Spoor, 3. Travis Hilbish*, 4. Kevin Westmoreland, 5. Mike Muzio
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Exp - 1. Tony Fagundes*, 2. Marcus Gentry*, 3. Gary Forrest, 4. Rich Graham, 5. Andy Adams
Master - 1. Kevin Williams, 2. Aaron Mattson, 3. Pete Cannizzaro*
Beg - 1. Stee Gallagher, 2. John Porgil, 3. Ian Staton, 4. Steve Deluna, 5. Jason Deryckx
Nov - 1. Greg Anderson, 2. Rich Beatie, 3. John Casselman, 4. John Barsell, 5. John Burnette
Intrm - 1. Chris Cumbo, 2. Mike Cosaert, 3. Doug Huff, 4. Dan Jones, 5. Blake Steelgrave
Exp - 1. Matt Dawson, 2. Taylor Marcell, 3. Eric Schacht*, 4. Robert Day, 5. John Lombardo
Beg - 1. David Drake, 2. Ron Hutcherson, 3. John Croce
Nov - 1. Bob Hurst*, 2. Art Flores, 3. Mark Aiken, 4. Mike Wilson, 5. Mike Greene
Interm - 1. Alex Chellew, 2. Darin Lundquist, 3. Mark Lane, 4. Uncle Mike, 5. Gary Thuesdill
Exp - 1. Robert Stone, 2. Chester Martinmass*, 3. Steve Parker, 4. Robert Fields, 5. Alan McGehee*
Master - 1. Randy Law, 2. Shawn Hybarger, 3. Steve Law, 4. Bruce Ashmore
Ama - 1. Reid Franke, 2. Michael Alarcor, 3. Russ Greenfield, 4. Leroy Francard, 5. Bob Kosovilka
Exp - 1. Jeff Blix, 2. Mike Tucker, 3. Lee Evans, 4. James Smith*, 5. Bruce Winfree
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IMCA Modifieds:
Heat Winners - #1 Jack Holland, #2 Shawn Natenstedt
Main (25 Laps) - 1. Shawn Natenstedt, 2. Jay Sears, 3. Jake Holland
Pro Stocks:
Heat Winners - #1 Derrek Raucher, #2 Ken Gotcha
Main (25 Laps) - 1. Craig Nieman, 2. Ken Gotcha 3. Chris Coclich
Hobby Stocks:
Heat Winners - #1 18, #2 Rick Miller
Main (25 Laps) - 1. Royce Goetz, 2. Randy Boyd, 3. Mike Olsen
Mod Minis:
Heat Winner - Stephen Crook
Main (15 Laps) - 1. Stephen Crook, 2. Steve Singley, 3. Will Richey
Dwarf Cars:
Heat Winner - 22
Main (20 Laps) - 1. Vuki Wilson Jr., 2. Shane Ranthum, 3. Tate Morehead
Pure Stock Minis:
Heat Winner - #1 Al Bishop, #2 13
Main (15 Laps) - 1. Al Bishop, 2. Brace Devin, 3. Mike Olsen
Outlaw Karts:
Beginner Main - 1. Mckenna Gershal, 2. Sarah Anderson, 3. Dale Craiglow
Intermediates - 1. Jacob Diez, 2. Katlen Roberts, 3. Caleb Gonzalez, 4. Steven Slatter, 5. Cole Reid, 6. Trey Waters
•Lovelock Speedway, May 26
IMCA Modifieds:
Heat Winner - J.D. Jurad
Main (20 Laps) - 1. Jeffrey Macedo, 2. Lee Bosch, 3. J.D. Jurad, 4. David Breaux, 5. David Peterson
B Mods:
Heat Winner - Damon Tupa
Main (10 Laps) - 1. Loren Bianchi, 2. Damon Tupa
360 Sprints:
Heat Winner - Robert Cooney
Main (20 Laps) - 1. Bob Cooney, 2. Robert Cooney, 3. Larry Olivera, 4. Jeffrey Macedo
Hobby Stocks:
Heat Winners - #1 Michael Ellison, #2 Audie Peterson
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A low, round, bushy plant with flower heads of 8-10 broad white rays surrounding a small yellow central disk. Plains blackfoot or blackfoot daisy is a low, bushy, mounded perennial, 6-12 in. tall and twice as wide. It is covered with narrow leaves and 1 in. wide, white, daisy-like flowers. The white rays are toothed at the tips and surround yellow disk flowers. These honey-scented flower heads are solitary and terminal on slender stalks.
At first glance, Blackfoot Daisy appears to be the twin of White Zinnia (Zinnia acerosa), but flower heads of the latter species have 4-6 broad white rays and a narrow base of several overlapping scales. Both may be found in the same habitat, but the range of White Zinnia does not extend as far south as Blackfoot Daisy.
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The Best Year Yet
Having just transitioned from 2009 into 2010, one thing we can say is that it has been a year like no other. Then again, we can say that about every year. We do say that about every year.
The year 2009 was supposed to be a year that began with great hope. We had elected a new president, and we were satisfied that the Republicans of 2008 were the cause of all the malcontent in the world. It was an easy excuse, but we liked it. Things can only get better, right?
One Year of Obama
We have survived one quarter of the Obama term already. As difficult as it got, we have survived. A year of failure and lies is certain to be followed by three more years of failure and lies. America voted to give Barack Obama the chance to heal the country's problems. We took his promises at face value and placed our hope in him and his administration with one caveat-the plans had to work.
We, as Americans were sold on hope and change for the better. We certainly received less than that. On energy, Obama said that he was open to offshore drilling. Whatever happened to that? Apparently he made that promise just to get elected. We are no closer to energy independence. And thinking that solar panels and windmills will solve our problem, that's just plain out deceit.
We Want Our Money Back
"We want our money back."Sometimes it's hard to believe that that statement actually came from President Barack Obama. But then we remember that it came from the antibusiness sentiment of the Obama administration. President Obama gets a perverse sense of pleasure whenever he thinks that he can stick it to the banks. First, Obama thinks that he saved the American economy by bailing out the banks. Now, he wants Americans to think that banks are the root of evil in America today.
The Obama administration tries to grab credit for the reversal of the economic slowdown. Again this year, all the problems that Obama has her inherited from the Bush administration. However, if you take a second look, the economic slowdown began to accelerate when it was clear that Obama was going to become the next president of the United States. Companies uncertain of the economic future because of unknown level of taxes that would be forthcoming, there will be a lot of them, began to cut costs. Now, after hitting bottom of an 18 month recession, Obama takes all the credit. The Obama administration also takes credit for this stimulus bill working wonders as designed. Then in the next breath, people will claim that only 25% of the stimulus bill is been paid out. If it works out well at 25%, why not canceled the remaining 75%? What about making the taxpayer a whole on this issue?
The Decency of Heath Care Reform
President Barack Obama and the Democrat leaders in Congress are once again at the level of desperation for the healthcare insurance reform bill that has been going through Congress for about a year. Perhaps soon, we can get to the point to where the current bill will finally be defeated. Then, we can start over using bipartisan ideas of real reform that America will want and agree with.
Democrats still seem determined to shut this down the throats of an unwilling population for their own selfish interests. If this is such a good idea, why do we need all the payoffs? Why all the rides for the congressional votes? The administration is seeking passage of this bill purely for their own narcissistic views. They want a political victory. They want a political victory at any cost.
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The Milwaukee public schools are set to improve starting this year. This of course, sounds like a headline from the Onion. And of course it could be. Whether it be here, at Logos of the Bogus, or the Onion, either way, it is a joke.
MPS just went through a superintendent selection process. By the early part of last week, the board had their selection arrow down to three worthy candidates-one who can't manage money, someone who cheats on his taxes, or someone who just did a poor job in general. And taking its cue from the legislative process, the board late on Friday night. They chose a guy who can't manage money.
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The Democrat arrogance that has been emanating in this country has also been greatly slowed down. The political parties nationalized the Senate race in Massachusetts. It became a referendum on Obama care. The citizens of Massachusetts became a voice for the nation and spoke loudly and clearly that Congress and the Obama administration must take a new direction for America to be successful.
Running on a platform of being the 41st vote to stop the healthcare monstrosity that is currently going through Congress helped elect Scott Brown. Also on the Brown platform is concern about huge budget deficits, national security, and the statement economy. All were to be addressed by the Obama administration but instead he made the "jobs" priority low on his to do list while he turned practically single-mindedly towards passing the healthcare reform bill. Obama bet his presidency on it, and now it looks like he has lost.


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D&D Next: more complicated than 4e?
Gillespie on Mearls on Hit Points over on Discourse & Dragons sparked a large discussion thread about the latest Mike Mearls Legends & Lore column on D&D 5e design. I found the article in question – Hit Points, Our Old Friend – dismaying for a number of reasons. (My comment on Greg's blog post grew long enough that I'm posting it here.)
I don't get what they're trying to accomplish with this re-imagining of what HD are. So instead of tracking just current and total hp, we have to track current and total hit dice as well? And "spend" them for natural healing? But it's not a "healing surge" because you can only use them between fights, and you regain them by taking long rests?
(Or maybe I do get what they're trying to do with this use of hit dice, but I just disagree with the design decisions or they're meant to support other parts of the system that I don't value. I think this is fairly likely.)
Is it just me, or is 5e shaping up to be just 4e plus attempts to reify the dissociated mechanics with new, canonical in-fiction explanations? I would have hoped 5e's base would be less complicated than 4e, not more.
In a related aside, did anyone else notice how the article let slip that "bloodied" is still an explicit part of the game, just not in name?
"Here's a brief overview that gives you an idea of what happens when a creature takes damage.
"A creature with more than half its maximum hit points has nothing more than the superficial signs of injury. There might be a few tears in its armor or clothes, or it could have a dent in its shield, and it has not yet suffered any serious physical harm beyond a scrape, light cut, or bruise. Anyone looking at the creature likely doesn't notice that it has been involved in a fight.
"A creature with less than half its maximum hit points has suffered a few noticeable cuts or bruises. A casual inspection or quick look reveals that the creature has taken a few hits, so it is noticeably injured."
Now, instead of getting rid of concepts like "bloodied" for the base game, they're keeping them and they're baking them into the basic game fiction. In the process, they're settling the question of "what hit points represent" with a canonical system answer.
Reifying game mechanics is all well and good, and some excellent games out there do just that to make the game-play and the fiction intertwine in a satisfying and organic fashion. What I think the 5e crew don't get is that well-integrated examples of such games have their implied setting built around and from these reified concepts, while in 5e they appear to be tacking them onto D&D-as-we-know-it in an attempt to justify dissociated mechanics they want to keep. That's just going to result in a) many of these additions to the fiction feeling like transparent afterthoughts, or b) making the game's implied setting incompatible with everything called "D&D" prior to 4e.
It's also overly complicated the game. Two of the charges leveled against 4e is that it's overly complicated and that its mechanics are dissociated. Solving mechanical dissociation by making the game more complicated seems like a choice that won't win over the people who leveled these charges in the first place.
I applaud Mearls looking to classic D&D for inspiration, but I can't get excited by all this overcomplication of the game in order to blend the editions. This isn't unification – this is just throwing everything and the kitchen sink into a system and calling it unified.


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The number of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in New York has reached 300.
Several thousand people are still out near Brooklyn Bridge despite cold, rainy weather.
Seven police officers were injured and a number of protesters received minor injuries during the protest march.
Two people were hospitalized.
Hundreds of police have been summoned to downtown New York.
On Thursday, the protesters attempted to block the New York stock exchange and disrupt the work of the subway system.
The current protests are taking place two months after the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Now that the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan has been broken up, more attention is being focused on protests in California. Right now, tents are still up on the University of California Berkeley campus and in San Francisco. But both sites are proving to be flash points for confrontation. VOR West Coast correspondent Kevin Tripp reports that a little after 1 a.m. Wednesday morning San Francisco police made a surprise raid and tore down several tents that were blocking a part of the sidewalk along the city's busy market street. Protesters responded by yanking metal barricades into the street.
Oakland GA working on a massive shutdown.
They just voted: in solidarity with Occupy LA & the ILWU to attempt on December 12 to shut down the entire West Coast--repeat, ALL West Coast ports!
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Arise children of the fatherlandThe day of glory has arrivedAgainst us tyranny'sBloody standard is raisedListen to the sound in the fieldsThe howling of these fearsome soldiersThey are coming into our midstTo cut the throats of your sons and consorts
To arms citizens Form your battalionsMarch, marchLet impure bloodWater our furrows
What do they want this horde of slavesOf traitors and conspiratorial kings?For whom these vile chainsThese long-prepared irons?Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrageWhat methods must be taken?It is us they dare planTo return to the old slavery!
What! These foreign cohorts!They would make laws in our courts!What! These mercenary phalanxesWould cut down our warrior sonsGood Lord! By chained handsOur brow would yield under the yokeThe vile despots would have themselves beThe masters of destiny
Tremble, tyrants and traitorsThe shame of all good menTremble! Your parricidal schemesWill receive their just rewardAgainst you we are all soldiersIf they fall, our young herosFrance will bear new onesReady to join the fight against you
Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriorsBear or hold back your blowsSpare these sad victimsThat they regret taking up arms against usBut not these bloody despotsThese accomplices of BouilléAll these tigers who pitilesslyRipped out their mothers' wombs
We too shall enlistWhen our elders' time has comeTo add to the list of deedsInscribed upon their tombsWe are much less jealous of surviving themThan of sharing their coffinsWe shall have the sublime prideOf avenging or joining them
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Correctly or not, certainly equations will be drawn with the larger scale events going down now in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Many believe the worst Yankee police behavior is unprecedented.
It is NOT unprecedented--just this young generation has been deprived of much of REAL American history. The prettyfied version serves analysis not so well.
But particular comparisons--shutdown of wireless towers in SF last night, the blatant attacks on even their own lapdog press, etc--are worth dwelling on. But the immediate paramount focus for Occupy in the US has to be the proposed West Coast port shutdown in three weeks:
November 19, 2011
Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012:
In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation:
Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth, just as coordinated nationwide police attacks have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort to disrupt our Occupy movement.
We call on each West Coast occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut down its local port. Our eyes are on the continued union-busting and attacks on organized labor, in particular the rupture of Longshoremen jurisdiction in LongviewWashington by the EGT. Already, Occupy Los Angeles has passed a resolution to carry out a port action on the Port Of Los Angeles on December 12th, to shut down SSA terminals, which are owned by Goldman Sachs.
Occupy Oakland expands this call to the entire West Coast, and calls for continuing solidarity with the Longshoremen in Longview Washington in their ongoing struggle against the EGT. The EGT is an international grain exporter led by Bunge LTD, a company constituted of 1% bankers whose practices have ruined the lives of the working class all over the world, from Argentina to the West Coast of the US. During the November 2nd General Strike, tens of thousands shutdown the Port Of Oakland as a warning shot to EGT to stop its attacks on Longview. Since the EGT has disregarded this message, and continues to attack the Longshoremen at Longview, we will now shut down ports along the entire West Coast.
In Solidarity and Struggle,
Occupy Oakland
-In Oakland: the West Coast Port Shutdown Coordinating Committee will meet on General Assembly days at 5pm (PST) before the GA to organize the local shutdown, and to network with other occupations.
(Oakland GA days are Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun. Given OO's penchant for streaming, some of this may be viewable on the next day at 01:00 GMT. Certainly proposals & info at the GAs two hours later on those days.
05:30 AM PST: Another night passed without incident at the main Occupy San Francisco camp. A thin line of cops guard the Federal Reserve across the street at 101 Market.
Good vid. That consciousness exists now. It's not yet huge or overwhelming but it IS there.
Difference is this: it was there in the past, but shouted down, suppressed. Now it's clearly expressed.
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality.
Naomi Wolf guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST
For the terrible insight to take away from news that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated a violent crackdown is that the DHS does not freelance. The DHS cannot say, on its own initiative, "we are going after these scruffy hippies". Rather, DHS is answerable up a chain of command: first, to New York Representative Peter King, head of the House homeland security subcommittee, who naturally is influenced by his fellow congressmen and women's wishes and interests. And the DHS answers directly, above King, to the president (who was conveniently in Australia at the time).
In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of command and accountability implies that congressional overseers, with the blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to order their police forces – pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and training from the DHS – to make war on peaceful citizens.
But wait: why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions against its own peaceful constituents? The answer is straightforward: in recent years, members of Congress have started entering the system as members of the middle class (or upper middle class) – but they are leaving DC privy to vast personal wealth, as we see from the "scandal" of presidential contender Newt Gingrich's having been paid $1.8m for a few hours' "consulting" to special interests. The inflated fees to lawmakers who turn lobbyists are common knowledge, but the notion that congressmen and women are legislating their own companies' profitsis less widely known – and if the books were to be opened, they would surely reveal corruption on a Wall Street spectrum. Indeed, we do already know that congresspeople are massively profiting from trading on non-public information they have on companies about which they are legislating – a form of insider trading that sent Martha Stewart to jail.
Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and infiltrated, it is likely that the DHS and police informers are aware, before Occupy itself is, what its emerging agenda is going to look like. If legislating away lobbyists' privileges to earn boundless fees once they are close to the legislative process, reforming the banks so they can't suck money out of fake derivatives products, and, most critically, opening the books on a system that allowed members of Congress to profit personally – and immensely – from their own legislation, are two beats away from the grasp of an electorally organised Occupy movement … well, you will call out the troops on stopping that advance.
So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not.
Sadly, Americans this week have come one step closer to being true brothers and sisters of the protesters in Tahrir Square.Like them, our own national leaders, who likely see their own personal wealth under threat from transparency and reform, are now making war upon us.


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One bite, dangerous dogWednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Does killing another animal make a dog as "dangerous" as if it had bitten a person?
Yes. And now that's the law in Palm Beach County.
On Tuesday, the county commission made it possible for the Animal Care and Control Department to classify a dog as "dangerous" if it kills or maims one other domestic animal, meaning companion or farm animals. Until now, a dog had to kill or maim two animals, though it takes only one bite of a human.
Sadly, it's the owners who usually turn dogs bad, but the priority has to be protecting the public. A dog that kills is a dangerous dog.
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and not just because they just won the world series, they have a NHL video on the Patriots page. is that called sucking up to the new boss?? Things may only get worse for us poor football fans.
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You are bordering of being put on the banned list with such comments... Tread lightly, lest ye become known as something such as 'Rustyella' or 'the Queen' on these boards...
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[/QUOTE]The Sox play baseball. The Patriots play football.
NHL is hockey.
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[/QUOTE]NEGAME... I think it has more to do with promoting anything "Boston" from a sports perspective. I do not believe it is intended to slight the Pats at all.
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Seriously, though, didn't the Red Sox just win a championship, which is far more important than the Pats beating the Fish?
the point was
they put a gd hockey video on the PATRIOTS page and yea for the red sox but you know what I DON"T CARE!!!!!!
although I am happy for all of you that are baseball fans and the city of boston--but I HATE baseball!! it's boring-----
and yes I'm more excited about the Patriots beating the Dolphins what's so hard to understand about that.
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you don't understand, to me it is more important.
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Can anyone identify the model number for this Delex shower valve?
The customer service at Delta says it is a series 13/1400 or 1600. Since availablility of repair parts is limited in the area where the house is located, I will need to purchase them ahead of time and take them with me. I do not want to be without water to the entire house because I do not have replacement parts for the shower faucet.
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those are their first versoin of a tempered anti
scald valve....
It comes with a cartridge and two common washers..
It is actually a pretty good faucet....
I will have to find the right number...
I still have a couple of them laying around.
complete in the box..
also you will probably need to have a new cam nut
for that valve.... the nut holding the cartridge in the faucet can be the hardest part to get off, you dont want to twist it out of the wall...
and a lot of times they have to be sawed off..
looks like the push button diverter is stuck in also.....
Thanks for the info...just need to figure out what parts I need to buy. Please let me know if you find the model number. The diverter still works. The faucet is in a house we inherited in a remote area a few hours away so I can not take the handle off for a picture until we go there again.
You probably need a Delta "Scaldguard" cartridge. I do not know the part number because I just pull the one I need from the parts display.
I just moved into an apartment that has this same shower fixture. The shower definately works ever since i moved into this place a month ago. the valve is pushed all the way in for the shower, but I couldn't figure out how to pull this valve out to get the tub faucet to work. I finally just took a small pair of vice grips and loosened the valve by turning it a little clockwise and the tub comes on. i wanted to find out more about these faucets because I had a feeling these were old and I didn't come up with anything in Google searches until i dug a little deeper and came across this thread. What could be the problem with this valve, and how could i fix it so i can stop using the grips to go between tub and shower?
The second shower had the tub diverter as shown, which was leaking badly. Unfortunately, I followed the directions on the diverter valve package explicitly which had me unnecessarily removing the collar under the handle. With much effort I think I managed to remove the screw from the handle. Like everything else on these @#%$&! Delta's the collar was effectively welded on. Result was that the whole valve assembly twisted and failed before the screw on collar released. Replaced the valve for one without the button diverter.
Haven't touched the 3rd one and hope I never have to. I don't care for the looks of the Delta's and working on them has been a fiasco. From now on, any time I touch one I'll have a non-Delta replacement lined up before hand.
OR, you can have the phone number of a good plumber who can take it apart without causing a minor remodeling project. Everything you have done could have been prevented, (and the valve you twisted off could have been repaired), by a good plumber.
If I have to pay someone for a service call to remove a simple screw I would prefer to shear it off as I could replace the whole valve for that much. Since it works without the screw, it appears to have just been another PITA Delta part and the savings were considerable.
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I am sorry we did not get further into our advice column before you started doing all that. EVERY plumber knows about those issues, and knows how to NOT have a disaster like that. Techniques such as heat, and slicing the bonnet, avoid destroying the valve.
Over the years, many design improvements have been made by ALL manufacturers. Do you complain about the quality of your '69 Ford? Drum brakes, no air bags, no PS. Things change. Things get old.
Delta has always been, and continues to be one of the best brands. Old plumbing requires some experience gained from the school of hard knocks.
You do NOT shear the screw off. You use a drill and remove its head so the handle will slide off. Then you use a pair of pliers to unscrew the remainder of the screw from the stem. Again, something a good plumber would know about and which would save a major expense of replacing the valve.
Again, I haven't replaced that valve since what I needed to replace was the handle, but I needed the screw head out of the way. The screw is nearly superfluous with the tight fit of the handle. Water had obviously gotten into the handle before I bought the home. As a result the handle looked like crap. This probably didn't help the screw any, but the other two screws I tested in the other showers were similarly tight. Make of it what you will, but there it is.


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Michael Rodriguez: Respect the 'student' in student government
Published: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 21:07
Student Government Association has taken a lot of heat in recent weeks. After the election turmoil, SGA now more than ever needs to step up its campus-wide effort to earn the respect of the students of Texas A&M.
A problem with SGA here on campus is its general sense of disconnect with the remainder of the student body.
Voter turnout has been low — less than one in three students voted this spring — and people wonder why. Unfortunately, our elected student officials seem to disappear after being elected. Elections should be the start, not the finish, of the connection between representatives and the student body. Senators need to foster this connection by purposefully engaging the general public and not just interest groups that pursue their agendas. If elected officials would go out to the public and engage students about concerns on campus rather than being content in Koldus, the student body may feel a greater connection throughout the academic year.
After all, it's called the Student Senate for a reason. It's called the student body president for a reason. If the titles did not have the word "student" in front, I would have no problem. Go ahead and sue each other until you are blue in the face. I, like many others, see the word "student" in the title as an honor and a call to action. Be representatives that we can take pride in.
During elections, I recall walking through Academic Plaza where students held banners for the candidates, and did not see one detailing the candidates' platform. What if the candidate stood for justice, equality, and preservation of Aggie traditions? What if the candidate was all for a complete revamp of Dining Services and wanted better transportation? No one would know this from walking past these banners. All the students saw was a clever slogan for voting.
The problem is not isolated to this example. We are in college, folks. In or out of election season, let's concentrate on the pressing issues, not personalities or technicalities. It comes as no surprise that the contested issues in the course of the campaigns shared one thing in common: money.
Who spent how much?
What was the limit?
I mean, really? Do campus politics, too, have to revolve around money?
From my vantage point, I can offer one simple resolution to this issue.
The recently elected Student Senate votes Wednesday evening for the coming session's leadership. It's a new page for the organization. Let the representatives do what their titles suggest, which is to represent the more than 50,000 students of Texas A&M. Go out to general meeting places such as Sbisa, the Commons, the soon-to-open Memorial Student Center, heck, even the REC, just to be able to connect with the student body and receive input about current issues on campus.
Don't make student's go out of their way to get involved. Let the representatives go out of their way to earn the respect of the student body.
When a controversial issue nears a vote, take the time to survey and see what the constituents think of the issue. This is not rocket science, people, though it is political science.
As Aggies, we are held to higher standards. In order for SGA to mend the wounds individuals inflicted to general student confidence, members should take to heart the ideals of campus democracy — of the students, by the students, for the students.
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AUGUSTA – Two men who led the fight against gay rights in Maine for years returned to the State House on Monday to denounce same-sex marriage in a much more aggressive tone than has been heard in this year's campaign on a referendum that could make it legal.
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Mike Heath, former executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, and Paul Madore, a Catholic activist from Lewiston, are part of a splinter group that formed to oppose Question 1, which asks voters if they want to allow the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The men are not affiliated with Protect Marriage Maine, the leading opponent of the gay-marriage proposal. They have formed the No Special Rights political action committee so they can spend money to influence the vote.
"Legalizing same-sex marriage is an opportunity to use the weight of the legal system to indoctrinate and force an acceptance of a lifestyle," Madore said to about 40 people who gathered in the State House Hall of Flags.
Among their signs: "Pope Benedict: No! To Homosexual Marriage (He is smarter than Mr. Obama)."
In response, David Farmer, spokesman for Mainers United for Marriage, said Madore's statement that the campaign is about a larger homosexual agenda is "ridiculous" and evidence of why Heath and Madore aren't part of the formal campaign.
"Same-sex couples want to get married for reasons similar to why other people get married," he said. "They are looking for stability and protection and the joy that comes from being married. What these folks are saying, that somehow our gay and lesbian friends and neighbors want something else, it's ridiculous and offensive and it's a good indication of why these people have been marginalized by their own allies."
Just a week before the Nov. 6 election, both sides are shoring up support. On Wednesday, the alternative rock group fun. will perform in Portland for a fundraiser for the Yes on 1 campaign. On Thursday, a large group of gay-marriage supporters is expected to rally in Monument Square in Portland at 5:30 p.m., then go to Portland City Hall to vote early.
Heath and Madore were instrumental in campaigns in 1998, 2000 and 2005, when voters were asked to add gays and lesbians to the state's anti-discrimination law. They gathered signatures, raised money and led passionate rallies where hundreds packed the steps of the State House to show their opposition to the expansion of gay rights.
In 2005, Mainers upheld a law passed by the Legislature to add gays and lesbians to the state's list of classes protected from discrimination.
Madore said Monday that when he and Heath were in charge, they raised thousands of dollars in Maine to support the campaign. This year, he noted, most of the money to fight gay marriage is coming from the National Organization for Marriage, which has given more than $1 million of the $1.4 million raised by gay-marriage opponents in Maine this year.
"That shows a dismantling of the grass-roots network," Madore said. "It shows a dismantling of the organizational skill that we had to lead a front against this kind of attack."
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In 2009, when voters repealed a gay-marriage law that legislators had passed, the opponents were led by Bob Emrich, a Baptist pastor in Plymouth, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. Neither Heath nor Madore played any formal role, although they organized a news conference similar to Monday's.
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